Everyone who has ever played with LEGOs knows the frustration of missing pieces, blocks not connecting the way you want them to or design being too complicated for you LEGO sets. However, some adults are just too good at breaking the LEGO building games rules. Adult fans of LEGO or AFOL, are people who haven't let their enthusiasm for the building blocks game die. While these enthusiasts respect the activity, some have gone off-map to create - "illegal LEGO building techniques," and they are awesome.
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Would you like to make realistic looking LEGO water? Check out these techniques and tips from LEGO builders! Lots of pictures!
Learn some advanced techniques building detailed LEGO walls. Perfect for LEGO castle, medieval towns, and abandoned buildings!
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Starting to deconstruct my old basic station, for a newer, more complex one
For some reason, this makes me very happy. Can be used for so many different purposes! Columns, Tanks, Wheels, etc... ...and yes, also SpaceShips, Flowers, and modern airliners!
The inner vertical dimension of the 1x4x3 window is very close to 3L (on the side with a recess at the top for the glass), suggesting some possibilities for architectural techniques. The inside width is approximately 72LDU, which is achievable, although difficult to get symmetrical. This panel is 68LDU wide by 60LDU high.
Two stacks 3 bricks high attached to two connected 1 x 2 plate hinges. Turning the hinge so the upper corners of the bricks touch creates a 15-degree angle. This angle is useful in the construction of clock faces and equatorial sundials.
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This one is dedicated to Karen Quinn, who loves this kind of stuff. Yes, this really works. To all my SPACE buddies, please use this door wherever. :-) This door also fits the 8x8x8 modular standard.
How to make a diagonal? In the examples above, the distance between hinges is constant (it has to be, since we're only dealing with two points). This means that anything attached from one hinge to the other can be rotated 180 degrees without any other alteration. The hinges are necessary, because the angles change, but technic snaps/holes, bars and holders, or any other non-indexed hinge will work. There are few limits on the rise/run that this can accommodate, and those limits are at the low end. Another way to think about it is that the rise from one side is simply moved to the other side. So, if you have two points you want to connect with a plate, just figure out the rise and the run, and then flip the connection. Note however that the higher end of the plate gets increasingly higher from the hinge, but this is easily accommodated. Also, the new mixel joints allow you to do this across two dimensions, not just one - throw up an example and beat me to it.
Album for more details: flic.kr/s/aHsmKnHzvP ATV Off-roading Trilogy (aka Quad Trilogy): Hillside Rollover, Mud Hole, River Crossing I have a long list of various off-roading scenes I want to build all based on photos I take while quadding (that's why my scenes always have me taking photos in them!). I decided to do the River Crossing back in 2016. I had tried the water technique in a previous build and finally got enough of the 8x8 plates to make this scene work. In early 2017 I found out about BrickCan and thought I should build more off-road scenes to take to the show. I came up with the idea of a 'trilogy' of quad scenes - 3 different scenes, each showing a specific action with slightly different settings, but presented as one 'story'. So I chose scenes of getting stuck in a mud hole (which I had built previously, but wanted to do a 'better' version), and rolling a quad on a hillside, as I thought they fit together with the river crossing as a good story. The ATV Off-roading Trilogy travelled to a few different shows in 2017 (several times in a suitcase!): - BrickCan (Richmond, BC - *won "It's a Thing" award) - Brickspo (Moose Jaw, SK - *won "Best of Town") - Brix n Blox (Calgary, AB) - BrickCon (Seattle, WA) - BricksLA (Los Angeles, CA) in 2018 I photographed it back in 2017, but it was before I really knew how to do backdrops, and was instead spending tons of time post-processing in PS to get a floating white background. That is a LOT of work when you have things like trees with irregular outlines. Unfortunately I had to take apart the builds before I learned to photograph them better. Now over 2 years later I finally gave up on the editing, and am just going to post the pics as-is - hopefully the backgrounds aren't too distracting!
How to build a LEGO Road with slope incline! We use this design in our growing city, and it is how we will connect a future bridge. Use this technique to add...
Today we’re looking at a beautiful build by Marius Herrmann aka @steponabrick on Instagram. Taken straight from the screen of “Ghost of Tsuhima”, Marius captures the Arrow Peak Shrine with its sacred architecture and breathtaking landscape, especially the tree, which features branches that dangle from flexible hoses. Walk through the incredible details and composition with us!
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